And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If you go to Key West you will see Victorian homes brought from New England by ship's captains, or so the story goes. They have cables that go right over their roofs in order to "anchor " them in case of hurricane. Apparently it works; they're still there...
For more than 20 years all new home construction in southwest FL has required either hurricane shutters or 200mph windows. On the barrier islands, where I do a lot of design work, 3/4" stainless steel cables are installed inside the walls that are continuous from the pilings on one side, up and over the roof system and down the other side.
No, what you're seeing as the lower edges of solar panels are actually boards that are there to protect the gutters from being crushed by the straps. I have never seen this before and I would also like to know how the straps are anchored.
Thanks for the clarification... When my home was anchored, they used a 5/8" diameter rod, shaped like a cork screw. It was screwed into the ground, at an angle, with what appeared to be a large "drill like" motor.
I wouldn't think that the straps and anchors would need to be all that strong to hold things in place. High winds only work when they start to get underneath a structure which then starts to lift and angle into the wind force - the more it captures, the greater the force. Keeping the roof bound down to prevent this initial ingress could go a long way to preserving the structure I think.
thinking like a grip; now, to the bar.
ReplyDeleteI read, several years back, that you could do that for tornado protection. Obviously the straps would run from the roof to the basement (indoors).
ReplyDeleteI like it...might just work. Need to get 20 in the cart before the crowd does a run on 2" straps.
ReplyDeleteWhat are they using for anchors?
ReplyDeleteI'd like to know if it worked...
ReplyDeleteIf you go to Key West you will see Victorian homes brought from New England by ship's captains, or so the story goes. They have cables that go right over their roofs in order to "anchor " them in case of hurricane. Apparently it works; they're still there...
ReplyDeleteEven in hurricane zone, the storm shutters are fake, merely decorative.
ReplyDeleteFor more than 20 years all new home construction in southwest FL has required either hurricane shutters or 200mph windows. On the barrier islands, where I do a lot of design work, 3/4" stainless steel cables are installed inside the walls that are continuous from the pilings on one side, up and over the roof system and down the other side.
DeleteThink those straps would work in a 7.5 Richter quake?
ReplyDeleteThis should freak out newcomers to Florida.
ReplyDeleteLook closer...they're strapping down the solar panels
ReplyDeleteNo, what you're seeing as the lower edges of solar panels are actually boards that are there to protect the gutters from being crushed by the straps. I have never seen this before and I would also like to know how the straps are anchored.
DeleteThanks for the clarification...
DeleteWhen my home was anchored, they used a 5/8" diameter rod, shaped like a cork screw. It was screwed into the ground, at an angle, with what appeared to be a large "drill like" motor.
I wouldn't think that the straps and anchors would need to be all that strong to hold things in place. High winds only work when they start to get underneath a structure which then starts to lift and angle into the wind force - the more it captures, the greater the force. Keeping the roof bound down to prevent this initial ingress could go a long way to preserving the structure I think.
ReplyDeleteIf only those anchors weren't mostly about as sturdy as fond wishes.
DeleteBury some concrete logs and clip into them, and we can talk.